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...recessions often help the best businesses widen their lead over the competition. "The true sign of greatness is a company's ability to emerge from difficult times stronger than it was going in," says Jim Collins, author of the just-published Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others...
...call author Jim Collins a perfectionist is to put it mildly. "Good is the enemy of great," says Collins in his comprehensive new book, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't. For five years, Collins, the best-selling author of Built to Last, and his 21 researchers obsessively studied how a good company can become a great one. The companies Collins defined as great--for example, Walgreens--generated cumulative stock returns about seven times as large as those of the S&P 500 over a 15-year period. Collins concluded that...
...next giant leap for toonkind came from this revitalized Disney powerhouse, in conjunction with the upstart tech wizards at Pixar. In 1995 the animators dropped their pencils and turned exclusively to their computer screens, creating the first completely computer-animated feature, Toy Story. Just as they had in 1937, audiences were exposed to something stunningly unlike anything they had ever seen and, once again, they loved it, and threw their money at it. Filmmakers outside the Disney machine now realized that they could no longer afford to ignore the money-making potential of animation...
Nobody should be kept from doing anything without good reason. But it takes an act of mental gymnastics to leap from that principle to the conclusion that any group-based restriction is unjust. If Harvard wishes to trivialize the importance of military service by turning its back to the cadets and midshipmen of ROTC, it ought at least to justify its position with more than mere assertion. ROTC detractors can only win their case by proving that prohibiting homosexual behavior is unnecessary and persuading us that we should be more worried about whatever harms arise from that prohibition than about...
...deductible of a basic indemnity policy or opt for alternative medicine; if they don't use up their allocation before the end of one year, they can roll it over to the next. At best, Stevens guessed, perhaps an adventurous 10% to 15% of workers would take the leap; in the end, though, more than three-quarters signed up. The result, says Stevens, is that "we're creating savvy health-care consumers who are really thinking about their money...